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'Military Report on Iraq (Area 6 Lower Euphrates)' [22r] (48/452)
The record is made up of One Volume (421 pages). It was created in 1923. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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isive bunds
3 carefully
watched and maintained. Where necessary these are built up to
height of 20 feet. The town is surrounded by a wall 8 feet high, con
structed in 1915, in which are built nine defensive j osts at irregular
intervals. It has 3 gates, the Pulford Gate on the West, the Shatrah
Gate on the iS'orth and the Gorringe. Gate .on the East.; all these are
well constructed with strong wooden doors.
The main building is the old Turkish fcerai, which has been much
improv 2 d by the British. It is exceptionally well built.
The city measures 1650x570 yards. Nasiriyah has a total of
1.000 brick houses, 500 shops, 21 khans, each capable of billeting 50
men, an electric power station, an ice
factory
An East India Company trading post.
, two good aerated water
factories, two flour mills using oil engines, 10 bakeries and 3 Turkish
baths.
Of the 100 houses above-mentioned only 50 could be utilised for
billeting troops, and then only iu small numbers. The bazaar is well
stocked and the streets are unnsnally broad and straight. Owing to
latrines and incinerators being used, the town is sanitary. The
population in 1920 was 6,523 made up as under; excluding all members
Of M.E.F.
Araks
Jews
Christians
Sabeans
Persians
T urkB
Kurds
Indians
4,712
621
21
633
300
23
. 281
2
In 19*j0 of this total population 2,073 were adult males, 2,761 were
adult females and 1689 were children under 16 years of age.
Supplies on a rough estimate are available as follows :—
Tons.
Season.
Wheat ....
900
1st May to 30th September
Barley ....
. 1,500
Ditto.
Rice
. 1,050
1st November to end of April.
Idhra
. 2,250
1st August to end of September
Mash
16
Ditto.
Lueerne ....
1*
Daily.
Sheep
. 700
..
Cows
100
>•
Vegetables ....
li
Daily for months of May, Jun
August and September'
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This volume was compiled as one of ten military reports to aid British military operations in Iraq published by the General Staff of British Forces in Iraq. It covers Area 6, or Lower Euphrates and contains chapters that cover the history, geography, climate, ethnography, natural resources, as well as the tribal makeup of region. The final chapters are devoted to important personalities, and communications infrastructure.
The volume is particularly detailed given that the area it covers was the site of a major anti-British insurrection in 1920. As such it is particularly detailed on the political and demographic makeup of the region and its people.
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- One Volume (421 pages)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 224; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Military Report on Iraq (Area 6 Lower Euphrates)'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, back-i, 2r:220v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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